DdCno1
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- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 7 hours ago:
Starfield is good. It’s not the next Skyrim, it’s not the greatest RPG ever made, but it does more than enough things right to be worthwhile. It’s fine to not like a good game, by the way - but this doesn’t make it terrible.
- Comment on Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service 7 hours ago:
Which games would that be?
Keep in mind that Sega isn’t just a developer, but also a publisher. They are relatively big in the strategy genre, for example, as publishers of the Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, Total War, Valkyria Chronicles and Endless Space series. They are also PlatinumGames’ publisher, own Atlus, etc. pp.
This doesn’t mean they are necessarily big enough to be able to successfully pull this off, but we’ll see.
- Comment on These creators want to change the way you think about remakes 15 hours ago:
A cash grab is what they did with the sloppy re-release of Chrono Trigger, which is vastly inferior to the original game on original hardware - or running a ROM Hack with bug fixes (or even just the game as it released originally) in a cycle-accurate emulator.
Remaking a game from the ground up with AAA production values is a costly and complex endeavor - and a risky one too, even with a titles as popular as Final Fantasy VII, since there is no guarantee fans will enjoy it. Almost the same kind of high risks as with any other game production of this sort of scale apply here. And while I haven’t played these remakes, their reception seems to indicate that they are anything but cynical cash grabs.
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 15 hours ago:
All I’m saying is… BIGDADDY.
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Original hardware, especially CRTs, is increasingly difficult to find and getting more expensive and less reliable by the day (both of my N64 are completely dead right now - just from sitting unused in a dry cupboard for a few years).
Love it or hate it, this is the future of retro gaming.
- Comment on Firaxis reveal Sid Meier's Civilization VII system requirements for Linux 1 day ago:
If you want to play games on Linux, it’s a safe bet to pick the most popular distro. Others are far less likely to work with games (except for** Arch-based SteamOS, of course).
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Happy to help. If you don’t like this shader, but end up preferring a different one, I’d love to hear about it.
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
I’m currently toying around with ares (the only fully cycle-accurate SNES emulator) and it has a lovely selection of CRT shaders (that are also available for other emulators). Try out crt-maximus-royale (or the half-res-mode variant). At least to me, the latter looks perfect, with just the right amount of blur, distortion, bloom and scanlines - and it comes with lovely details, like the bezel reflecting the image in real time and speaker grills filling the rest of the screen.
Someone uploaded a gallery with various games to reddit that shows just how versatile this shader is:
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Now I’m curious what your criteria are. Do none of the shaders shown in the video appeal to you? To me at least, they look remarkably close to several types of old CRT TVs that I remember.
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Thanks. I shall avoid the motion blur variant as best as I can, because that’s one of several aspects of this device I do not remember fondly.
I borrowed a friend’s Game Boy for an afternoon when I was a kid and I was so disappointed by it (primarily the screen, but also poor ergonomics and the limited nature of its games) that I lost nearly all interest in gaming for a year.
- Comment on Apple urged to axe AI feature after creating false headline claiming that Lugi shot himself 1 day ago:
It’s been that way since at least the first Trump administration. The sanewashing continues.
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Does this shader also replicate the horrific blur the display of the original GameBoy suffered from?
- Submitted 1 day ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 28 comments
- Comment on What are your favorite ROM hacks? 2 days ago:
Based on the description, it seems like it would make sense even if someone hasn’t played the original game yet. Would you agree with that?
- Comment on What are your favorite ROM hacks? 2 days ago:
What makes it special?
- Comment on yeah, I game on APUs 2 days ago:
I think this tracks. Last time I checked, it had eerily similar performance at 1080p as a GTX 1080 at 1440p (same settings otherwise), at least with games that don’t need more than 4GB of VRAM, like Assassin’s Creed Origins.
- Submitted 2 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on At least 1440p is good for heating my house 2 days ago:
I’ve done this with other games (to the Deck and to and from other devices), but that’s not a question you need to ask. Streaming a game doesn’t have a noteworthy impact on the frame rate anymore in the age of GPUs with built-in encoding circuitry. Provided you have a half-decent home network, it’s hard to distinguish it from playing directly.
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 2 days ago:
Subjectively at least - and this might be rose-tinted glasses influencing my judgment - it feels like it was more common, that certain genres were almost expected to come with an accessible level editor. I think I spent more time with the one from Age of Empires than the actual game.
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 2 days ago:
Yeah, sorry, I missed the context and meant outside of Linux.
- Comment on Are We Ready For Driverless Buses? 3 days ago:
Correct!
- Comment on Fake AI versions of world-renowned academics are spreading claims that Ukraine should surrender to Russia 3 days ago:
The vast majority of Russian citizens are living in cities. How practical do you think it is for them to use Starlink antennas there, especially undetected? How are they going to pay for the service with Russia being increasingly detached from the global banking system? Not to mention: Musk has close ties to Putin and restricted this service upon request from Moscow in the past - and it’s trivial to block these signals even if he doesn’t.
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 3 days ago:
They are far worse than AMD, which is a very low bar already.
- Comment on Fake AI versions of world-renowned academics are spreading claims that Ukraine should surrender to Russia 3 days ago:
The ship has not sailed. The Russian government has recently been experimenting with cutting access to the global Internet entirely:
- Comment on Are We Ready For Driverless Buses? 3 days ago:
Normally yes, but Japan also came up with an alternative and rather literal combination of the two, because of course they did:
- Comment on Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring 3 days ago:
It ain’t legal in civilized countries.
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 3 days ago:
The real issue is spotty compatibility with older games or even things that nobody would normally think about being problematic, like emulators.
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 3 days ago:
Probably because they want to use this card with an old board, which means an older CPU, which makes no sense with a card this powerful, since it’ll drastically bottleneck GPU performance. It’s a common mistake people are making though.
- Comment on The Two Genders 4 days ago:
Two sexual orientations: Straight and political.
- Comment on IRIS²: the new satellite constellation aimed at ensuring communications autonomy for the EU is launched today 4 days ago:
Are you seriously trying to argue against necessary communications infrastructure (mere days after Russia severed an undersea cable) with emissions?
